Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mandy Patinkin

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Johannes Rau

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

Lykke Li

The first tape I got was Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection.' I'm inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn't have a big musical talent, but had a big dream.

Sergei Prokofiev

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

John Frusciante

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

John Carpenter

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

John August

With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I came onto Corpse Bride, it wasn't a musical.

Geezer Butler

I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in

Elaine Paige

Evita' obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

John Cullum

I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

Leo Ornstein

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Jimmy Cliff

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Elliott Carter

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

Josh Hartnett

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

Joshua Bell

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Leona Lewis

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

Luke Evans

It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.

Lucas Grabeel

I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8.

Gavin Bryars

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.

Karl Barth

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

Oscar Peterson

Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a very gifted composer and arranger never ceases to amaze me. I consider him one of the musical giants of our age.

Kanye West

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

Julian Ovenden

It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.

Gustav Mahler

Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.

Gustav Mahler

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

Loni Anderson

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

If someone said, "Here, you have your pick, you can do either a musical, Moulin Rouge type of movie, where you sing and dance, or an action movie, or a Shakespearian or Elizabethan movie," I would definitely love to do a movie that was based on a musical, where I would get to sing, dance and act, all at the same time.

Kirk Hammett

My musical tastes change every week.

Julia Barr

Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

Jesse Eisenberg

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

Jeremy Sisto

What appealed to me about the whole production is how big it is. I don't do musicals because I don't sing very well. But this is the biggest stage thing I'll do that's not a musical.

Ned Rorem

So far as musical pedagogy is concerned - And by extension of musical creation - Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived